Me Mercury: The Life of Edward Baines 1774-1848

A comprehensive biography of Edward Baines, founder of the Leeds Mercury newspaper, MP for Leeds and man of letters. The Leeds Mercury was the flagship of Victorian Liberalism in Leeds and Baines was involved in all the great political issues that affected the city in the early nineteenth century. This book will appeal to local historians in Leeds as well as specialists interested in urban history, the provincial Press, Liberal Dissent, the work of backbench MPs, and many other aspects of early Victorian society. The book runs to over 300 pages and includes a map and 15 black and white illustrated. It is fully casebound with an illustrated jacket.